OpenCog is a new project that aims to create an open source Artificial General Intelligence. It is sponsored by the Singularity Institute, Novamente, and the Lifeboat Foundation. These groups, and the people within them such as Ben Goertzel and Eliezer Yudkowsky, have long been working in the field of Artificial Intelligence and theorizing about how [...]
Slashdot linked to an outstanding article in the LA Times about the need for a new type of property tax, an Intellectual Property Tax. Such a tax would discourage people from holding on to intellectual property from which they are deriving no income. All works for which taxes are not paid would revert to the [...]
One of the main – and one of the most criticized – features of a state is that it claims a monopoly on power. For a democratic state, this isn’t an incredible problem as it is controlled by its people, ensuring it is a public good and not one based on the interests of a [...]
Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig, who has done some amazing activist work as a lawyer toward reforming intellectual property laws and the founder of Creative Commons. He is also the founder of the Free Culture movement. Lessig has now expanded his horizons and is starting a new movement: the Change Congress Movement. His goal is to [...]
A majority of unskilled jobs are completely unnecessary even with current technology. We are already very much a Robotic Nation; ATM Machines, industrial robots, automated checkouts, e-commerce, computerized help desks, and vending machines have replaced millions of workers. The burden of most unskilled labor can and will be shifted to machines, and the same is [...]
This is a pretty shocking interview of Jim Cramer, host of the popular show Mad Money. He is talking about “blatantly illegal” and immoral business and investing strategies, such as pump and dump and price fixing, as if they are routine, and acts as if the companies that have yet to do those things are [...]
In the 1980s, the Savings and Loan Crisis hit our nation. John Kenneth Galbraith called it, “the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time.” It cost our nation hundreds of billions of dollars because of immoral and illegal activity by financial corporations, and the result was the most massive [...]
Here are some excellent examples of political propaganda. The thing is, Obama is actively pushing for involvement of the body politic in the political process, and seeking to create a real political culture in the United States. Thus, it is our duty to make damn sure he upholds these principles that he so eloquently speaks [...]
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